Keir Starmer
Boris and Keir – best of frenemies
In struggling to get schools open, who should Boris fear more – SAGE or Starmer?
Labour’s recovery will begin by returning to its roots
It’s organisation and closeness to community, not a magic policy solution, that will rejuvenate Labour
No more Mr Nice Guy
Starmer fails to land a blow on a Boris Johnson who is up for a scrap
Normal politics resumes
From Hard Brexit to Soft Lockdown, Boris Johnson is keeping most of his natural support with him
‘The Sun Wot Won It’?
When has media coverage really influenced politics?
Boris on the box. Or Boris at the despatch box?
Should lockdown policy be announced in televised addresses or to a near-empty parliament?
What Labour owes to Scotland
Can Keir Starmer succeed without the land of Keir Hardie?
Diversity in scepticism
Questioning the lockdown isn’t a Brexit or culture wars thing
Starmer for the Prosecution
At his first PMQs, Labour’s new leader offered a masterclass in constructive opposition
Rebecca Long Bailey – classroom warrior
On schools policy, Keir Starmer is no heir to Blair
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unconquered by a
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Get ready for the worst World Cup ever
FIFA is scoring a pathetic own goal with its treatment of football
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The artist formerly known as Nero
The life and death of Rome’s last Julio-Claudian emperor revealed every Roman fear about the dangers of one-man rule
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
Migrant hotels are not the real problem
The real problem with illegal immigration is at the border
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
The Muslim modernisers
Muslim reformers do not innovate; they renew by seeking to mend what is broken
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Killing the bill
Parliament has not approved assisted suicide — but the fight to revive it has already begun.
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.